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Federal Judge Orders Endangered Species Act Protection For Gray Wolves

A federal judge on Thursday restored Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf across much of the country, ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2020 removed the protections based on two core populations of the canid, not on the species' status in a significant portion of its historic range and did not consider whether that range was needed to achieve full recovery.

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Working To Address Infrastructure Impacted By Kīlauea's 2018 Eruption

What to do with facilities, including the Jaggar Museum, on the rim of the Kīlauea Volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park that were damaged by its 2018 eruption is a question the National Park Service is seeking public suggestions for.

Groups Call On Biden Administration To Create National Biodiversity Strategy

Nearly 200 countries have developed various forms of biodiversity strategies, but the United States is not one of them, according to a coalition of conservation groups that want the Biden administration to create a national biodiversity strategy in a bid to slow the sixth mass extinction.

Exploring The Parks: Wandering The Hoh Rain Forest

On a July 4th weekend, I slowly circled the Hoh Campground, passing just about every one of its 72 sites in search of an empty, unreserved campsite. With the sinking feeling that my campsite would end up somewhere in the adjoining Olympic National Forest, it was stunning to find a vacant site on a turn in the road and separated from the Hoh River by a line of towering trees.

Review | Our Common Ground: A History Of America’s Public Lands

The title of John D. Leshy’s political history of America’s public lands, Our Common Ground, introduces the central fact of the story he invites us to read. The American federal public land estate is our land, a shared heritage of more than 600 million acres owned collectively by the American people and managed by the federal government. Yet despite a vast literature on public lands, which he points out focuses mostly on categories such as national parks or forests, much of the American public does not have a comprehensive understanding of how they came to have such a public land legacy.